> […] thinking of it as a "marvel of engineering" or any other prose that implies some sort of guiding hand.
Heh. It's hard to talk about the way things have been shaped by evolution without implying an actor, because our vocabulary is so very shaped by our subjective experience. I, personally, am reasonably certain that there is no creator in whatever sense. Yet, I'm still awestruck at the ingenuity life on our planet has shown, and the immune system is a never-ending source of wonder to me.
And while it surely isn't perfect, if we were to look at the raw numbers of incidents versus the number of adversary action against your body—that would be pretty darn near perfect.
Heh. It's hard to talk about the way things have been shaped by evolution without implying an actor, because our vocabulary is so very shaped by our subjective experience. I, personally, am reasonably certain that there is no creator in whatever sense. Yet, I'm still awestruck at the ingenuity life on our planet has shown, and the immune system is a never-ending source of wonder to me.
And while it surely isn't perfect, if we were to look at the raw numbers of incidents versus the number of adversary action against your body—that would be pretty darn near perfect.